Starting with the Yale School of Medicine (YSM) graduating class of 2002, the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library and YSM Office of Student Research have collaborated on the Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library (YMTDL) project, publishing the digitized full text of medical student theses on the web as a valuable byproduct of Yale student research efforts. The digital thesis deposit has been a graduation requirement since 2006. Starting in 2012, alumni of the Yale School of Medicine were invited to participate in the YMTDL project by granting scanning and hosting permission to the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, which digitized the Library’s print copy of their thesis or dissertation. A grant from the Arcadia Fund in 2017 provided the means for digitizing over 1,000 additional theses. IF YOU ARE A MEMBER OF THE YALE COMMUNITY AND NEED ACCESS TO A THESIS RESTRICTED TO THE YALE NETWORK, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR VPN (VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK) IS ON.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1860
Dissertation of the mind physiologically and psychically considered, Nelson Gregory Hall
Dissertation on mental influence in disease, Charles Henry Hubbard
Dissertation on the influence of physical agents on organization and life, Aaron Shimer Oberly
Dissertation on Pneumonia, John Benjamin Welch
Dissertation on injuries of the head, John Burns Williams
Dissertation on phthisis, Edward Prindle Woodward
Theses/Dissertations from 1859
Dissertation on Dysentery, Frederick Levi Dibble
Dissertation on bilious remittent fever, James Hyatt Harriott
Dissertation on fractures near joints, John William Lawton
Dissertation on continued fever, Jonathan Hamilton Lee
Dissertation on phthisis pulmonalis, Samuel White
Theses/Dissertations from 1858
Dissertation on food, John Martin Aimes
Dissertation on apoplexy, George Washington Birch
Dissertation on lactation, St.-Félix Colardeau
Dissertation on typhoid fever, Daniel Armstrong DeForest
Dissertation on alimentary substances, Henry Webster Jones
Dissertation on hernia of the indirect inguinal variety, Timothy Beers Townsend
Theses/Dissertations from 1857
Dissertation on fractures, Asa Hopkins Churchill
Dissertation on the progress and prospects of medical science, George Clary
Dissertation on the blood, Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Creed
Dissertation on the circulation of the blood, John Foote
Dissertation on tetanus, David Anson Hedges
Dissertation on the prevalent tendency to superficiality in the medical profession, Sanford Lawton
Dissertation on connection between mind and body in disease, Charles Roe Osborne
Dissertation on acute rheumatism and rheumatic carditis, Homer Lee Parsons
Dissertation on apoplexy, Ozias Willard Peck
Dissertation on pneumonia, Ezra Smith
Dissertation on causes of error in medicine, John Witter
Dissertation on correct diagnosis, the true basis of therapeutics, Samuel Russell Wooster
Theses/Dissertations from 1856
Dissertation on review of "A monograph on mental unsoundness." by Francis Wharton.", Leonard Woolsey Bacon
Dissertation on inflamation[!] of the iris, William Bissell
Dissertation on abortion, George Beriah Bouton
Dissertation on wounds of the arteries with hemorrhage, Oliver Hayden Bronson
Dissertation on medical jurisprudence, Edward Bulkley
Inflammation, William Camp
Dissertation on anaesthetics, Luther Clarke Cox
Dissertation on the function of the liver, William Deming
Dissertation on diarrhoea of children, Henry Lewis Fitch
Dissertation on acute hydrocephalus, Richard Foote
Dissertation on croup, Joseph Shelton French
Dissertation on scarlatina, Elijah Gregory
Dissertation on scarlet fever, Charles Clinton Latimer
Dissertation on concussion & compression, Cyrus Brownlie Newton
Dissertation on injuries of the head, Henry Wheeler Painter
Dissertation on cynanche trachealis, Stephen Franklin Pomeroy
Dissertation on vegetable and animal respiration, James Austin Richards
Dissertation on atmospheric air, considered in its relation to the human system, Christopher Dicran Seropyan
Femoral hernia, Samuel B. Shepard
Theses/Dissertations from 1854
Dissertation on lepra tuberculosa, Burr Reeve Abbe
Dissertation on tetanus, William Orville Ayres
Dissertation on retained placenta, Erastus Bradley Bills
Dissertation on fractures, John Kenney Downes
Dissertation on continued fever, Josiah Griffin Ely
Dissertation on intermittent fever, Horatio Nelson Howard
Dissertation on the cause, duration and termination of disease, John Nicoll
Dissertation on induction of premature labor, Henry Pierpont
Dissertation on digestion, Moses Henry Wakeman
Dissertation on the abuses of opium, Moses Clark White
Theses/Dissertations from 1852
Dissertation on idiopathic and traumatic tetanus, Richard Miles Buell
Dissertation on typhus fever and the valedictory address, James H. Curry
Dissertation on uterine leucorrhoea, Jonathan Edwards Doolittle
Dissertation on cynanche trachealis, Nathaniel Marston Freeman
Dissertation on croup, Pierre Robeau Holly
Dissertation on diagnosis, Charles Augustus Lindsley
Dissertation on anaesthetics, John Shute Moody
Dissertation on inflammation, George Benjamin Parsons
Dissertation on intestinal worms, Samuel Newell Rowell
Dissertation on scarlatina, Welles Hamilton Sellew
Dissertation on carus catalepsia, Zebulon Wanton Thomson
Dissertation on cinchona, Ezequiel Uricoechea
Dissertation on erysipelas, Noah Blakeslee Welton
Dissertation on pneumonitis, Samuel Allen Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 1851
Dissertation on pneumonia, Warren Parker Beach
Dissertation on pneumonia., George Benedict
Dissertation on scrofula, Orlando Brown
Dissertation on pleurisy, David Silliman Burr
Dissertation on inflammation, Samuel Catlin
Dissertation on emetics, Henry Eddy
Dissertation on apoplexy, Francis Coles Greene
Dissertation on ventilation, Storrs Hall
Dissertation on ophthalmia, Jonathan Jones Howard
Dissertation on bright's disease, Robert Hubbard
Dissertation on uterine hemorrhage after delivery, Matthew Turner Newton
Dissertation on hysteria, William Soule
Theses/Dissertations from 1850
Dissertation on purpura hemorrhagica, Amos Cranmer Blakeslee
Dissertation on asthma, Henry Clinton Bunce
Dissertation of semeiology, Alpheus Bryant Clarke
Dissertation on placenta praevia, Henry Augustus Collins
Dissertation on asiatic cholera, Richard Pierce Evans
Dissertation on variola, Henry Hawley Foote
Dissertation on morbus brightii, Horatio Welles Gridley
Dissertation on erysipelas, Dixon Scipio Hall
Dissertation on pneumonia, Charles Clifford Holcombe
Dissertation on peritonitis, Lewis Raymond Hurlbutt
Dissertation on relations of psychology to medicine, Henry Lobdell Jr.
Dissertation on diet, Henry Wylly Matthews
Dissertation on phthisis, George Hammond Rogers
Dissertation on the leech, Henry Smith
Dissertation on epidemic cholera, Joel Washington Smith
Dissertation on typhus or continued fever, William Cook Williams